Dick Falkenbury grew up and spent most of his life in the Roosevelt area of Seattle. He began driving cabs in 1978, later becoming a tour driver and tour bus driver in 1992. In 1996, having worked in many liberal political campaigns in the Seattle area, Falkenbury wrote and led an initiative effort to build a monorail throughout Seattle.

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Sound Transit announced that the fare on the light rail has gone up. They attribute it to ‘rising costs of operations’ according to the Seattle Times. Oh, really? Did I miss the story aabout the wages going up for the drivers? The train runs on electricity and I am pretty sure that there has been […]
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Seattle used to have a very simple way of doing things: we looked at what other cities did–and did the opposite. Every other city was getting rid of their farmer’s markets, and we saved ours. Every other city was putting their stadiums way the hell and gone in the suburbs and we put ours right […]
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If I wasn’t underemployed and had a job that required more time, I wouldn’t be reading the entire newspaper. If I didn’t read the entire Times, I probably would have missed the small article on B3, the second story in the local news wrap-up, right under the thrilling and important story of a teenager’s fake […]
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In the excitement of the killing of Bin Laden, a couple of important points were missed and several important stories were sent to the back pages: Obama had been told that there was intelligence as to where Bin Laden was hiding. It was just weeks before the Congressional elections of last year. Obama could have […]
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Regardless of where he was born, Obama is too polite, too kind and too correct to be president. First, he should be crowing about the success of the financial/auto bailout. (I was opposed to much of it; particularly that there was no punishment of people that caused the meltdown.) But the fact of the matter […]
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